Chrome is designed to run best on solid-state storage systems as opposed to traditional spinning hard drives, in part because solid-state drives are less prone to failure, but also because they're less spacious - remember, Google wants you to store your data online. It'll be pre-installed by netbook manufacturers who adhere to Google's hardware specifications. Unlike Windows, Chrome won't be available as a download. Netbooks are small laptop computers that are designed to let users access the Web, and not much more they're inexpensive and feature-limited hardware, and they aren't built for high-powered applications like Photoshop, for example. Google embraced the concept of an ultra-simple, Web-centric OS in large part due to the huge recent success of netbooks. In total, the Chrome OS is built on an open-source version of Linux and integrated with the Chrome browser, a simple media player.and that's it. With Chrome, the browser actually is the OS - in this case, the Chrome OS builds on the Google browser of the same name.

Google's Chrome OS aims to overhaul that paradigm.

You have to install the programs you want individually, manage OS and security updates and manage device drivers, too. Traditional operating systems, such as Windows, require a lot of hard drive space and demand some work on your part.

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